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Identifying a Negative SEO Attack
I am not going to get into too much detail here. Suffice it to say if you are not using ahrefs and majestic to monitor link velocity and link types, AND updating your link disavowals regularly, go here and read this first. In any event, when you check your site's new links daily, and see a huge spike in things like forum blog comments, and directories, you can pretty much bet that one of your competitors, or an NSE ("Negative Search Extortionist") has hit you on purpose using negative SEO.
In a nutshell, these extortionists have reverse engineered the Google algorithm(s) based upon the knowledge that Google will issue keyword and webspamming filters on to websites that Google suspects of spamming for ranking manipulation purposes. A hacker, or NSE is the broker, or "go between" who can help SEO companies and your competitors to build the types of links that Google punishes. The ultimate goal with NSEO is to get your site dropped in rank, or even de-indexed.
This frees up one of the 10 available organic search result slots on page one of Google for the latest SEO company trying to justify charging a duped lawyer $2,000 plus per month for basically nothing. Whereas before (pre April 2012) people paid money to get their website links placed into or onto pages of these automated linkbuilding types of Scrapebox, and Xrumer exploitable sites, now domain owners are now actually paying to get their links removed from these sites. In fact, as will be shown below, Google now punishes sites that look like they paid for, or built "bad links" on purpose, in an "un natural" way (whatever that is – it's all totally "subjective".)
Google says it is not a "penalty," but an algorithmic filter. Congress and the president also said Obamacare wasn't supposed to be "treated as a tax for purposes of this legislation," but once it was no longer legislation and was the law, the SCOTUS said it looked, walked and talked like a duck. What matters is what it pans out to be. In this case, it has the same effect as a penalty. It hurts you. That's all you need to know.
Google SERPS Are Not Dynamic Like they Used To Be?
Back in the day, Google would move sites up or down, almost immediately, based upon smart changes to your site. This was called "dynamic" updating. But now, if your legal website gets hit with this "filter," we have seen periods of up to a year before Google acts to remove the filter, and only after you have Orca'd the site, or completely cleaned it up.
The effect of the filter is to push your site down in the SERPS in an un-natural way even after you have ended the "un-natural" issues both on and off site. This is evinced by the most recent Penguin update of 2014. It took actually over a year for that to update, and there is still a negative SEO issue, especially for sites that had been algorithmically, and not manually penalized.
During these long, languishing periods, consumers and law firms will certainly be adversely affected by not so excellent Google search results being returned due to improved negative SEO spamming techniques, such as bad code injections into WordPress exploitable sites. Because of this "Penguin" and "Panda" turbulence, and constant testing, many veteran Googlers are taking a fresh look at other search engines for sometimes much better results than are being returned presently under the current Google configurations targeting linkbuilders (Source.)
Types of Link Extortion Post Penguin 2012 – Covert and Overt
There are full blown, overt link extortion networks, such as those criminals who will threaten you that you must pay for protection, "or else," or those who pretend that it was you OR SOMEONE YOU PAID who added the links, and therefore, you must pay to have these caustic links that appeared overnight removed, and pay a protection fee to assure it won't happen again, to the more covert, such as trojan horses and Word Press malicious code site injections, etc.
Today, we will be discussing injection and overt link extortion. Note that not all NSEO is for extortion purposes.
Some NSEO, such as site code injections, is designed to destroy the sending and receiving site's rankings and trust, while parasitically benefiting temporarily, a site receiving the parasitic links, such as a porn, Cialis, or gambling site, and even your site temporarily, until the filter kicks in. Once Google has whacked that mole, and your site, it usually moves on to the next poorly defended site(s).
The NSEO Issues We Will Discuss Today
These two types of NSEO exploits are the ones our law firm has had to deal with these past few weeks, so we figured we would try inter alia, to answer some questions about the messed up state of the law in the area of negative SEO, copyright enforcement and some ideas for dealing with in particularly nasty and unfriendly host countries.
In this article, we will also take a look at some examples, explanations, and some ideas for taking down caustic links, extortion networks, and other NSEO friendly hosts hiding within the borders of lawless countries. We will also ask the simple question. Why can't Google just discount bad links instead of "filtering" a site to be lower in ranking.
The Google White List
We certainly know that Google White Lists certain websites it likes, and basically protects them from these types of NSEO attacks, leaving their rankings in place. We also know there is a major anti trust case in Europe over this type of favoritism. Unless you're in tight with Google, your only way to defeat NSEO is get educated and get busy. Now that we have covered all that, let's get down to brass tacks.
Ok Ok So I have Identified a Huge Un Natural Link Spike Pointing to my Legal Website – Big Deal – Google Says that "Rarely Works" Right?
Context and semantics are key when trying to unravel the often vague, ambiguous and subjective Google TOS and their statements from their representatives. The statement and official position by Google that negative SEO is rare GENERALLY speaking, is not really a myth or dishonest.
Think about it, Google is not being dishonest when it says NSEO is rare. There are millions of search results for a given search term, such as "personal injury attorney," for example. So yes, in a vacuum, NSEO is rare since hackers and extortionists rarely build caustic links to results not on page 1 or 2. It would be interesting to see some official numbers on negative link building to first 20 organic listings on Google.
There are only ten organic slots on the first page of Google. And I am here to tell you that NSEO is taking place 100% of the time everyday on the first page results of Google. It is NOT RARE for sites lucky enough to have ended up on page one for a particularly competitive search term, such as "car accident attorney," for example.
A Short History – Slowly Opening the Negative SEO Floodgates
As seen below in this snippet from Marie Haynes, basically, as Google clamped down on "spammers," it inadvertently opened the flood gates for negative SEO extortionists. This all started when it slowly changed its policies, first in 2003, and then more drastically, in about March of 2012, a month or so before the release of excellent results killer, Google Penguin.
Prior to January of 2003, Google had a page on their site that said the following, "There is nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index. "
And then in 2003, they changed the wording to say, "There is almost nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking…."
Then, in March of 2012, about a month before Penguin, Google made a new, shocking announcement to everyone, that it would now be even easier to exploit a well ranking site's results, stating:
Google works hard to prevent other webmasters from being able to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index. If you're concerned about another site linking to yours, we suggest contacting the webmaster of the site in question. Google aggregates and organizes information published on the web; we don't control the content of these pages.
Initially, only a few trained experts, such as SEO By The Sea's, Bill Slawski, really understood the relationship between positive and negative SEO. Few if any NSEO experts existed, but there were some guys out there who were using it in heavily competitive industries. No doubt, there surely had to be some former Google employees and now SEO people, who were aware of the direction Google was headed in making it easier for a third party to tank a site's rankings, under the auspices of making the internet a "better place."
Certainly there were winners and losers in the ranking shake up of April 2012. The Happy Times were over. Indian directories, in particular, were crushed by Penguin. People were, and still are begging and paying to have their automated links removed. In many cases, links had been built to businesses for one reason or another that had nothing to do with trying to rank. But Google may not have seen it that way.
The ultimate effect of the Google policy and Penguin changes, is that now, not just a few people understand how to exploit NSEO, everyone does. Those Indian directories are now adding businesses and demanding payment to remove the bad links, and they are hosting their sites in outlaw countries who will NEVER take your links down in some cases. Matt Cutts was even saying it might be better to trash your website if you don't like the results post Penguin (Source.)
The Evolution of NSEO Vulnerability
As evinced by the evolution of the Google TOS and official positions on NSEO, this a commonly known vulnerability and has undergone 3 evolutions in terms of ease to hackers. The search engine giant admits that it has become easier over time for your detractors to do NSEO and tank your "competitive" site.
The evolution went from:
- "it's not possible" (pre 2003);
- "it's possible" (2003) (2012.)
- "works hard to prevent" NSEO (2012.)
I am also here to tell you that regardless of your domain history, a huge link spike, or any other indicator, even if these trickling links are disavowed quickly, can tank your attorney website. If for example, Google is in the middle of a Penguin algo update, and you don't disavow in time, or some other switch was thrown in the Hummingbird that says you did "evil," your site could tank. Google has created no domain blacklist of attacking sites, or safe harbor database to protect us from bad sites. If it has we don't know about it)
We know for example, on the last Penguin update, Google said that unless you had already uploaded a disavow file, any new ones would not be considered in that update. It took more than a year for that update. So it is really quite easy to spam someone's site with NSEO and since Penguin is not updating regularly, you are basically screwed.
As a result, site owners are spending time and money they would have used for PPC campaigns, to monitor caustic links, and for reputation clean up and link removal. If NSEO hacks knew that Google had released a published list of sites they ignore, NSEO hacks would realize that few would pay them to remove the bad links. PROBLEM SOLVED, at least some of it.
Non Google Options at Identifying NSEO and Caustic Spam
Web Of Trust is creating a black-list of link disavowal files. Hopefully someone at Google will at least give its blessing and tell us site owners that we don't have to worry about these links hurting us or not. In the meantime, staying on page one of Google is more about fighting off bad links than gaining good ones. It is simply too hard to build good links in a fashion that could overwhelm any sustained attack.
Under detente with the former Soviet Union, the U.S., NATO and the Warsaw Pact had all agreed that an attack on one would be an attack on and by all, and that there would be Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD, of both sides. It is easy to envision a day where sites on page one of Google are launching cyber attacks against eachother. My contention is that day is already here and has been so in a big way since April of 2012.
As a result we are sure to see a mutually assured destruction of eachother's sites when we who are on page 1 start seeing a steady flow of caustic links to our sites. We will all just assume it is another site on page 1, and respond like with like. It is the natural state of man to seek revenge. I believe that now more than ever, Penguin and negative SEO is the tempest in the teapot that could revitalize Yahoo! and Bing and turn Google into another Excite. It was not too long ago after all that Google leased its algo to Yahoo! when Yahoo! was the king.
Furthermore, it is NOT rare to see NSEO on page one sites, as discussed. In fact, recent studies conducted by the same experts I would now hire to help me prove causation and damages shows that with around $50 bucks, or maybe less, you can tank just about any site on page 1 of Google (Source 1, Source 2.) There are many many more examples online.
Things to Do Right Now If You Were Attacked!
Immediately, you must:
- Create Link Disavow File, and PRAY TO GOD that Google doesn't blame the link spike on you. My belief is, that even more than anchor text, Google is looking at velocity, and punishing the ranking of sites that get links blasted to them in a short period (Click Here.)
- Report the Spam Domain Farms, or other attack device as Spam (Click Here.) Your ONLY prayer is to disavow those caustic links as you find them, and try and create a public record, perhaps in the Google Help Forum about your problem (See Example Here.)
- Contact Web-O-Trust.Org and upload your url blacklists.
- Report any NSEO extortionists on the Google Help Forum and try and get a Google Employee to escalate the matter. (See Example Here.)
- Try and Use a DMCA Takedown. This assumes they scraped your site AND that the host is not in an anti DMCA country like Canada, France, Vietnam, or the Netherlands, etc.
- Report Bogus Whois data to the Domain Reseller. Most of the time these sites use bogus addresses and numbers and don't want to spend $ to do a private registration. Report them to the reseller. Often times that domain network will get taken down.
Nitty Gritty – Example of a Negative SEO Attack
In the below example, you see an ahrefs Jpeg that indicates a huge spike of hundreds of links all added overnight, starting around April of 2015. You will note as we explore further, that the spike is from links to our law firm website from identical PHP directories, all containing the same content and domain owner. Of course each one of these mirror sites also has a remove link feature for the paltry sum of about $700 U.S. dollars.
In the spike shown in above example, these links are from inter alia, the following low quality directory spam sites:
reflinkwebsolutions.com aprotrain-aptech.comsmartechexpo.com lexingtontechnologyforum.com techforpro.com webstudionis.comcomputech-ics.com kittechetc.com datawebex.com ballbugweb.com dayalhitech.com fajrweb.com webprodoctors.comitsoft-technology.com projectechonevada.com elationwebmarketing.com latinowebcafe.com mywebsiteprofits.com techlink24.com weblogicspecialist.com webplier.com webeandome.com hightechhobby.com graggseo.com meisentech.com web4academy.com opensysweb.com mrstubbsweb.com ideabiotech.com cleantechpro.com webme-usa.com woodstonewebworks.com webs4him.com transcreationweb.com creailtuoweb.com aztechsupply.com technocontext.com systx-web.com
The NSEO Extortionist Reply Email
"Greetings, We can remove these links at cost of $7 per link… Are you interested?"
Of course, each one of the directories shoots back the same response. So I responded with more or less, hey, I did not add these, you did. Why should I pay $700 plus dollars to you?
On Sunday, April 5, 2015 3:55 AM, Rajat Sharma <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
Greetings, We can see below 112 links in our entire 425 directories network which we can remove at cost of $784-Take a look at attached data about who submitted this link.Links are-adactechnology.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comadvancedentech.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comakcwebtech.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comaprotrain-aptech.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comarttech4d.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comaztechsupply.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comballbugweb.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.combrawebbyra.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comcasestudydirectory.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comcleantechpro.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comcomputech-ics.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comcontroles-techniques.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comcreailtuoweb.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comctsbiotech.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comcyowebsite.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comdatawebex.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comdayalhitech.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comdirectoryofsystems.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comditech-networks.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comelationwebmarketing.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comemploymenttech.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comenerctech.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comeofirewebsite.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comexperts-web.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comfajrweb.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comgeneralgastech.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comgesidre.org/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comgraggseo.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comgtatechinc.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comhemostech.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comheptechnologies.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comhightechhobby.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comhitechaso.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comhrproweb.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comideabiotech.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comindiewebcanada.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.cominfoweb-italia.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.cominternetgamingdirectory.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comitech-works.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comitsoft-technology.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comjivedirectory.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comkittechetc.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comlagomarweb.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comlatinowebcafe.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comlexingtontechnologyforum.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comlime-technologies.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.commeisentech.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.commomtechhelp.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.commrstubbsweb.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.commywebsiteprofits.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comny24hrweb.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comoftalmonaweb.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comopensysweb.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comoptendowebshops.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comoshkoshwebsites.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comprojectechonevada.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.compuretechniques.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comreflinkwebsolutions.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comsmartechexpo.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comsocialdiscoverydirectory.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comstyrotechdesign.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comsystx-web.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comtacirweb.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comtcwebinar.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comtechchen.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comtechforpro.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comtechlink24.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comtechnoclimatica.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comtechnocontext.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comtechnocotext.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comtgiindustrytechnology.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comthebeerdirectory.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comthepersonalweb.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comtherfidweb.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comthesolentweb.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comthetinytech.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comthetopfranchisedirectory.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comthietkeweb4s.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comthorindustrytechnology.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comtranscreationweb.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comttechdesign.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comtugswebsites.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comweb4academy.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebdesignindublin.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebdesignnycity.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebeandome.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebeemedia.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebeksperten.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebgeospatial.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebkintech.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comweblegalpro.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comweblogicspecialist.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebme-usa.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebpage1hq.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebpageonehq.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebplier.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebprodoctors.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebs4him.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebshoptech.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebshuillc.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebsitecloners.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebsiteren.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebsitesoshkosh.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebstudionis.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwebtechonlineservices.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comweb-west.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwestcorkdirectory.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwixwebsitepro.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwoodstonewebworks.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comworldtechcity.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comwritemywebsite.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.comyipptech.com/index.php?q=ehlinelaw.com
No Safe Harbor – Notice Notice
Another Example of an OVH Hosted Hacked Site
In the above examples, you will see what many cynical people call Google's "best friend." When Google really unleashed Negative SEO in around March of 2012, a new industry arose and Pay Per Click spends quickly rose. All you had to do now was to create enough bogus links to your competitor, and there would be a chance that you could tank his site.
Google won since the only way old schoolers could rank was PPC, and NSEO guys and hackers all cleaned up. You saw clean domains with zero link history blowing everyone else away, even those who had an established online presence for sometimes 20 years [POOF]. But you quickly saw those newer, "clean" sites could also be hammered and dropped off of page one as well, with just a few well placed bad links.
Modernly, just as quickly as you report the attack to Google, or disavow it, another one pops up like "whack a mole." These hackers are creative as well. They know that porn is one thing Google targets as potential spam. So if a hacker can inject your template into a site with porn links and foul language, preferably one hosted by OVH, the victim is pretty much helpless, at least that is our personal experience. How do I know?
It happened to me. Our firm website's home page template was hijacked/ and injected/placed onto several OVH hosted sites. These host sites had been exploited with malicious code and injected with porn terms that are linked back to our business website. Well, I have reported this French hospital site several times to OVH, since they have obviously been hacked, and also are hosting my stolen template. Take a look at this! http://loireadd.org/smuggler/trade-wife-pics-forum-kwik/ This particular site below, is also listed as having been hacked in the SERPS by Google itself.
As you can see below, this is the template of www.ehlinelaw.com, but in has been injected into a website in France for some hospital. Nasty language was superimposed on the template, along with silly pictures. Clearly a pro is trying to tank my site. You can even see that they have copied verbatim, my home page content, which can have the effect of diluting its value and making it "duplicate"content, risking us a penalty or de index. BELOW IS OUR LAW FIRM TEMPLATE HIJACKED ONTO PORNO with Links to Us:
Google Even Deindexed the Site and STILL OVH France Has Done Nothing
I personally sent several complaints to OVH France AND Canada over this hack. When they refused to contact their client, or take down the hacked site, I went ahead and filed a DMCA Takedown with Google. Below is the screenshot proving that Google deindexed the site's results for those pages:
It is standard policy for Google to notify hosts when their results are deindexed due to copyright infringements. But here, as you can see, OVH France has done nothing about this. And don't think you are out of the woods yet. Google still follows links from no followed/no indexed pages on sites. This means you are potentially still being penalized for the bad acts of the NSEO hacker whether the pernicious site is deindexed or not. Getting the content and links removed is the only sure way to know that threat is ended.
Identifying/Contacting a Negative SEO Extortionist
In our last example, loireadd.org, the only option is to pray the site owner doesn't want a hack to remain on his site. But I have sent faxes, emails and even tried to call the domain owner in France, with zero success. I even traced them to Facebook and Twitter and used the Google Translate Tool to try and initiate a chat. So as you can see, especially with the French or French Canadians, unless there is cooperation at the host or reseller level, this is a tough cookie.
In the above example, it is much more difficult to identify the source of the attack, other than the site that was injected. These are usually fire and forget attacks and the reward for the spammer is seeing you fail. Identifying the extortionist who wants money is easy. Just email them or look on their site. Sometimes they will actually email you! Usually there is a link to paypal to remove the link. (One might also consider complaining to Paypal.)
In my case, I simply typed in the spammers fake internet name listed on the whois data, and voila, he showed up right there in the Google Help Forum as an SEO "Extortionist!" (Link)
Example of Negative SEO Extortionist Terms and Conditions
In the above example, you see that the NSEO extortionist uses the same exact content and terms of service on each of his 400 plus websites that all use the same listings and templates in the same order. He also uses bogus Indian whois data, and bogus phone numbers that ring to nowhere.
I note that this particular site is owned by AKC Web Tech. Apparently, it is Savita and Arvandh Singh of India, own apparently own this network of OVH Canada hosted spam sites. They responded to a Google Plus chat and said they do not own these sites. Each of these spam sites all use the same exact templates and content. Many of them are brand new domains, or ones that recently expired. Each use the same:
Note: "For Link removal we charge $7 for each link"
Not convinced, check out this email chain with the negative SEO Spammer I had.
Check out this brazen response.
So anyways, this guy is slick and he sends me an attachment with a Google Mail acct and a Vietnam IP address, and implies that it was me who added these BS links to his BS directories. Check this out.
After emailing back and forth, and reading reports by other businesses, I realized quickly that the end game here is pay this guy off, or risk Google taking down my url. Of course, as you read on, you will see there is more than one way to skin a cat.
In any event, I blame Google for this. Google created this type of caustic SEO environment, and my PPC spend is now being used to deal with this NSEO extortion. This whole Penguin disaster just reversed the game from spammers selling links, to businesses paying spammers to have them removed, which is far more lucrative to Indian churn and burn companies anyways.
Identity Theft?
Suing Google for an injunction to get the bogus gmail acct taken down might help. After all, clearly this is a case of stolen identity. But how hard is it to set up another one and keep on trucking? Not hard at all. But yeah, there is a definite crime of identity theft here.
The NSEO spammer is setting up BS gmail accounts using our domains and my actual Christian name, as the acct titles. Obviously Google could easily look at this and assume it is the legitimate business owner [me] trying to spam. This could easily prompt the filter and hurt my legit business, which is what the NSEO spammer wants. See the tangled web that NSEO has created for Google and everyone else? Business owners are in a state of perpetual attack and uncertainty. There is no end in sight.
Dealing with a Negative SEO Extortionist
When a domain owner who polices his site is confronted by a negative SEO extortionist, he or she is usually left with only a few solutions. None of them are easy. None of them give you back your lost time and treasure in dealing with the miscreants who caused the problem.With Google never giving a clear statement as to what is, or is not spam, all we can do is brace for the algorithm when a third party deliberately sculpts our linking profiles in order to hurt us.
Here is how to deal with this as discussed above:
- Create Link Disavow File (Click Here.)
- Report the Spam Domain Farms (Click Here.)
- Contact Web-O-Trust.Org and upload your url blacklists.
- Report any NSEO extortionists on the Google Help Forum. (See Example Here.)
- Try and Use a DMCA Takedown.
- Report Bogus Whois data to the Domain Reseller.
- Of course you can always pay the extortion fee.
Option 7 is no option for me. All solutions and their likely or not so likely successes will be discussed here. My first thought is to see if the offending site scraped my content. If so, I am thinking DMCA. But most NSEO spammers figured this out, and now seek a "safe haven host." One of the biggest alleged hosts of spam, based upon what we have seen online, is OVH in France. Indeed, almost all of our problems emanate from OVH hosted domains.
The OVH Refusal to Honor My Copyright Problem
The first thing you will want to do when you have identified an attack, is to get on who.is and try and find out as much info as you can about the site owner and host. As discussed, 9 times out of 10, the whois data is a lie. So next is to look at the IP address of the host and see who it is. If it is a U.S. company, AND the negative SEO site scraped your content, then you may be able to get the content removed along with the bad links.
But most NSEO guys figured this out, so they try and host on their version of the internet's Afghanistan. They already have their own Taliban waiting for them with open arms, and cheap hosting to hide behind as they drop bombs on businesses and families.
What do I mean? Well, all of us with sites pretty much realize by now that European companies in the Netherlands, and especially OVH France and their Canadian branch, OVH Canada, routinely ignore U.S. copyright law (Source.) In fact, a cursory search of black hat forums, and even higher quality forums will show several threads directing hackers to hosts that won't enforce victim's rights without a court order. Some countries like Vietnam would probably not even let a lawsuit against a host to get to the court order stage.
OVH comes up as the solution to many many hackers who are tired of getting de hosted. OVH has been called a friend to Wikileaks, and has been embroiled in multiple legal problems. Negative SEO spammers, porn and other illegal criminals flock to hosts that do not police their networks. In fact, multiple reports of porn and link spamming on the OVH networks by yours truly, go unresolved to this day.
Even when Google has honored DMCA requests and deindexed entire OVH hosted domains, I have never seen any OVH hosted site get taken down by OVH itself. This means that OVH has apparently made itself as safe haven for unsavory types, and that you, as a victim are on your own when you have a problem with a site hosted by that company. Of course, you can always hire a French, or Canadian French attorney, and institute a legal action. This is next on our list. We at Circle of Legal Trust are creating partnerships with overseas lawyers to assist our members in forcing spam hosts to honor our universal legal rights.
But enough of that for now. Let's discuss dealing with the issue at hand.
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NEWS! NAPICU and AIMS
NAPICU has recently ceased its collaboration with the CCQI in relation to AIMS-PICU. The CCQI future strategy intends to harmonise all AIMS standards in order to develop the framework across a wide range of mental health areas in community adult mental health and children's services. This will then form their quality assessment framework across these Mental Health Services. A variation of these broad applicable standards is under development for PICU services and communications from the CCQI will be sent out to AIM-PICU units very soon to confirm this. Given this change in approach, it was no longer possible for NAPICU to be able to continue in this partnership to develop specialists standards for intensive care.
NAPICU has always held any of our assessment frameworks including AIMS-PICU and the multi-disciplinary aspects of care delivery must be designed specifically for and collaboratively within specialities in order to be as meaningful as possible; this is to make the quality requirements which NAPICU actively endorse as rigorous as possible.
We wished to assure members that this change in no way affects the support you receive from NAPICU through your membership and we have been very encouraged by the units that have worked actively to the standards required of our quality frameworks.
These frameworks drive practice and better patients care and is something NAPICU will continue to promote and actively develop as practical assessment of implementation of the National Minimum Standards of Intensive Care. Furthermore we will continue to develop guidance specific to the diversifying intensive care specialism to support our members by keeping our assessment standards as aligned as possible to these specialisms.


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Wireless connection to a projector
Hi guys.
I'm a long-time reader of these forums, and have found a lot of solutions here throughout the years. This time I have a very specific question and I don't think it's been asked yet.
I have an older desktop PC in my living room (AMD A4-3400 APU) running Windows 7. I'm looking for a good way to hook it up to a projector, without running a cable from my PC to the projector and preferably with the projector being recognized as a secondary screen. Any ideas on how to do so are welcome!
What I have considered so far:
The only built-in support I can think of is connecting to it as a network projector. What exactly makes a projector qualify as a network projector to Windows 7? I suppose having Wifi doesn't suffice. What kind of specification should I be looking for?
I could buy a projector that runs Android 4.2 and has Wifi with Miracast support. (I would actually prefer this because these are very versatile devices.)
I have been looking at the newer Wifi Direct standards such as Miracast and Intel WiDi. As far as I can tell, my PC's hardware doesn't support either, and buying a simple Wifi dongle won't do the trick. (My PC is hooked up to a LAN cable.)
Finally, I have seen some wireless VGA adapters, but I find them very expensive. If anyone knows of reasonably priced alternatives, please let me know!
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I've never seen one in action or read any reviews but this springs straight to mind and may be worth a little research - Buy Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter - Microsoft Store United Kingdom Online Store
Personally I use a wireless projector - Epson EH-TW6100W Full HD 1080p 3LCD 3D Wireless: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics
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The specs say that you need "Miracast-enabled" Windows 8.1 for that. Will it work on 7?
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I've always subscribed to the theory that the addition of actress Patricia French into any project automatically thrusts it in a highly credible direction. The new Ravens & Seagulls — written by local playwright Karla Jennings — features French and a slew of other talented performers navigating a satisfying drama about loss and family, courtesy of Essential Theatre. Luckily French is just one of the highlights here.
The cowinner of the 2014 Essential Playwriting Award, Ravens & Seagulls is running through August 17 at the West End Performing Arts Center in repertory with That Uganda Play, the play it shared its award with. That Uganda Play may be the more topical of the two, but Ravens & Seagulls is simpler and clearer in its storytelling, held together tightly by director David Crowe.
How three sisters respond to their dying youngest sibling is at the heart of the new show. Joan (Suzanne Roush), a jewelry maker, comes to San Jose to be with her beloved sister Amanda Sikodowska (Jill Perry), near death from liver complications. Joan's other two siblings are spending their time there arranging meds and trying to make Amanda's last days as pleasant as possible. Liz (Teresa DeBerry) is something of a control freak, planning things almost passive aggressively at times. ("You're staying at the hotel tonight. We talked about this already.") And oldest sister Myra (French), a doctor, is trying to keep the peace with Liz and feel she fits in. Besides Paige (Sarah Wallis) — Liz's 21-year-old daughter — the house gets is share of friends paying their last wishes. (Said friends are played by Gina Rickicki and Sam Traquina.) It's probably not surprising that the sisters quarrel, especially as they prepare for the inevitable.
It's been a while since playwright Jennings had a production staged by Essential — 2000 to be exact, with the play Images in Smoke — and this one is especially sharp, with multiple layers. The sisters have all sorts of relationship issues between them, and one of the nicer assets of the play is that it doesn't spell everything out. Backstories exist that we have to gauge ourselves. Amanda is everyone's favorite sister and she has lived her life to the fullest, while others in the family have not. A less assured playwright might have tried to add more subplots but Jennings has an agreeable sense of what to tell and what not to.
Her dialogue, too, is very naturalistic, save for some of Joan's speeches about Homer and The Odyssey. The production can be funny at times — Joan debates the virtue of Thor vs. Loki as a suitor; the siblings dig through Amanda's belongings and are amazed at what they find. As a director, Crowe has been behind some quality work of late, especially his version of Equus at Actor's Express last season, and he and Jennings are a compatible team. Fitting the mood, Crowe keeps it mostly spare and unfancy.
The play's ensemble is one of the strengths. As expected, French brings sassiness and depth to Myra, and Perry gives Amanda a radiant spirit. It's easy to see why people gravitate to her. DeBerry's Liz seems simple at first, but she is a woman of backbone and strength. As her daughter, Wallis has the least developed role, but she sails by on charisma, while Rickicki and Traquina get to play many roles each. One of Rickiki's roles is the character of the Savior who comes to Amanda and Joan. Some of the hallucinatory moments with that character don't quite work, but they don't lessen the overall impact.
As accomplished as the cast is, though, this is really Joan's journey, and Roush has the centerpiece role. She does a superb job of making the character complex and showing how Amanda's situation is turning her life inside out. Joan spends much of the first half of the play almost always smiling — and the smile subtly wears off. After a 10-year absence from the stage, it's a magnetic piece of acting from Roush, one the major performances of the summer.
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The 3rd Annual Miles for Missions 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run is hosted by Comer Baptist Church to support Missions. This course will take you through country roads starting and finishing in front of the new church building at 225 Clover Avenue. This course is great for beginners and seasoned runners alike with one challenging hill just after mile 1 with water stop once you make to the top at 1.5!
Comer, Georgia is located just 20 minutes east of Athens!
All runner's will receive a long-sleeve shirt and goody bag.
Awards will be given to top male and female finishers for each age group along with tons of other raffle items to participants. All 1 mile fun run participants will receive t-shirt and prize. One prize will be awarded to the best Stay in Bed 5K photo posted on our Facebook page!
What is the Stay in Bed Option? Do you want all the swag of a 5K but don't want to run or walk 3.14 miles? Then the Stay in Bed Option is for you! You get all the benefits of a 5K – awesome t-shirt, bib number, safety pins, goody bag but you don't have to get out of bed! Fill out the form below, send us $25 and we will mail you your race packet. On the day of the 5K, put on your new 5K shirt or best work out attire, your race bib and get back in the bed. Do not leave your house! The best Stay in Bed 5K photo posted on our Facebook Page will receive a prize!
All proceeds go to the Comer Baptist Church 2016 Peru Mission trip.
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Kentucky Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul said of GOP leadership "sometimes they just don't want to address facts that are out there" on illegal immigration on Tuesday's "Hannity" on the Fox News Channel.
Rand commented on Republican leadership, stating "sometimes they just don't want to address facts that are out there" on illegal immigration. He added that legislation to end sanctuary cities "makes so much sense. If someone is wanted for a federal crime, and they're being held by a local jail, when the local jail releases them, they should be released into federal custody. And this is something that President Obama changed. Because it used to be that this was interpreted as being a mandatory hold on a prisoner. And President Obama through executive order, and through executive interpretation has now said that it's voluntary. But if you're wanted for a federal crime, you should be held, and not released to the general public. And it's a real tragedy that this young woman lost her life because people in San Francisco apparently don't care about whether or not they're releasing dangerous criminals into the public."
Rand later argued, "What we can't have is a lawless nation. And that's sort of what we have now is a lawless border. And people have talked a lot about what immigration reform or security measures are necessary. Really, what we need is an enforcer. We haven't had a Republican or a Democrat in the White House who is willing to enforce immigration laws. Just enforcing the laws on the books would improve things now, but we have sort of a lawlessness when San Francisco thinks they can thumb their nose and not obey the federal law."
Earlier Rand said, "what we do need to do is we need to tell cities like San Francisco they have to obey the federal law, and immigration is a federal law, and states all the time obey this. If you're wanted to for shoplifting, you're held for shoplifting in Ohio, but you've committed murder in Michigan, Ohio never releases you and just say[s], 'Go on your way.' They release you to Michigan, should be the same in San Francisco. If you're wanted for a petty crime, but immigration service wants you for another crime, when you're released, you should go into federal jurisdiction or federal prison."
The discussion then turned to the Iran deal, Rand stated, "I've been very skeptical of the Iranians' intentions. And I think anything that leaves them with a sufficient nuclear capacity to enrich, is a problem. And I think this agreement does that. I've also said over time that I think the sanctions, if there was going to be sanction relief, that it should be delayed until we see sufficient Iranian compliance. And then the third thing about the agreement that bothers me, is that it allows for sales of advanced weapons, like even ballistic missiles to Iran. I think it would be a huge mistake for the world to begin selling advanced weaponry to Iran again. So, I won't be able to support the agreement. Because I think it doesn't address any of the things."
He continued, "I did vote for the Corker bill, though, and I think it's sometimes mischaracterized. The Corker bill says that the agreement does have to come back and be voted on. The president objected to Corker's bill, and in the end it was passed, and the president went along with it. But the bill does have to come back and be voted on. And so there will be a chance for all of us to decide whether we agree or disagree."
Rand then argued, "let's say that I say it's a treaty, and I do agree that it's a treaty. … But the president says it isn't a treaty. So what we have is a conflict. … If we vote to say it's a treaty, the president then vetoes it, it would take 2/3 to override it. So, really, where we are with the Corker bill it's going to take 2/3s to override the president's veto, which is exactly the same scenario we would have with a treaty. So, I think Corker's bill is essentially the same as whether we vote on whether it's a treaty or not. Because we will ultimately have to overcome a presidential veto in either scenario. So, I think they're equivalent."
Rand concluded that the Congress ceding power to the executive is "the biggest problem facing our country, is we've allowed the presidency to grow so strong and the Congress to grow so small. And that we have given up authority to the president."
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US, not Assad, drops MOAB Weapon of Mass Destruction on Afghans, same MO used against Philly's MOVE insurgents.
The US is bragging right now that it's dropped a GBU-43/B MOAB, aka Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, know in the Chairforce as a "Mother Of All Bombs" bomb, apparently the larger of non-nuclear bombs in its arsenal, on a suspected tunnel in Afghanistan, presumably full of Afghans. Will the UN condemn the US act and support coalition retaliatory airstrikes on the rogue regime which did it? No need for an investigation, we're on TV admitting to the deed. Note the US war media are adding "in combat" and "on the battlefield" to their headlines although the command and control center allegedly targeted would be Islamic State's DC.
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US forces push women to front lines, canon fodder being traditional minority role
Pentagon lifts ban on women in combat. I guess US prisons have consumed the traditional canon fodder labor pool. What's the upside to this news –a kinder gentler militarized empire? Fail. Our culture of violence doesn't breed matriarchs. American women on the front lines is good news for insurgents in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc, etc, now Mali, who must welcome the chance to even the score, US forces having targeted so many of their women. And this retaliatory killing comes with no karmic debt, unlike our civilian casualties, because US female soldiers, like gay don't-ask-don't-tell turnstile jumpers, are gung-ho eager-for-carnage volunteers. Have at it ladies. Insurgents must be really encouraged by recruiting trends in US schools which promise the prospect of the US soon deploying kids. We owe our colonial victims so many children's lives.
Posted: January 28th, 2013 under News.
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When 'health care' is pure corporate corruption – Afghanistan as case study
Much of US health care is really a form of corporate corruption and government welfare for corporate interests, and plain medical dysfunction. So it is certainly to be expected that Pentagon-occupied Afghanistan would face the very same MESS us Americans do, just on a more gargantuan basis. See Government cannot afford to run any of the 19 new foreign-funded facilities due to come online in the next two years. Americans, as well as Afghans, deserve to have a medical system free of constant corporate corruption pushed by corporate-run government.
Posted: October 4th, 2012 under Perspective.
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The media today did a casualty count for the war against Afghanistan and its mistreated people, and came up with the magical number 2,000 (Sorry Afghans, nobody in the US hardly cares about your deaths). We are all supposed to ponder and reflect (according to the Pentagon fed corporate US media) about the supposed sacrifices that Americans have made to supposedly benefit the people of Afghanistan. Doesn't it just make you sick, Democrats, to know how 'your' political party, for which you vote constantly, views this war as being a good war? No, I guess it doesn't.
Posted: September 30th, 2012 under Perspective.
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Prince Harry the Hedonist shows war for what it really, really should not be
A young prince who can do anything he wants, might go to war for some noble cause, if he hadn't already exposed his and its deeply immoral character. After his Vegas binge, Prince Harry has returned to Afghanistan, his request this time to be a gunner on an Apache attack helicopter in the UK squad with the highest kill rate. It reminds me of the Hapsburg emperor who liked to shoot a peasant each day before breakfast –eventually his handlers had to enlist actors and load the old man's rifle with blanks. We prefer to look back at old Franz Joseph as senile, but what is the truth about unrestricted inhuman whim?
A recent Taliban attack on Camp Bastion, Prince Harry's base in the Helmund Province, may have been aimed at the bloodthirsty prince. Who can blame the Taliban for targeting a pro-war figurehead which the UK itself is exploiting? It could be however that Prince Harry's secondary strategic benefit is not dissimilar to the American misuse of anti-Muhammad taunts to provoke insurgents. Drawing more Taliban fighters out of the shadows probably does not displease his royal trigger-happiness. Probably unarmed Austrians shared just as unfavorable odds as Afghans with AK-47s against Harry's gunship. Let's hope not.
Posted: September 15th, 2012 under Info Virus.
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US wars: You win some, you win some
JULY 18– Syrian rebels led by CIA and US special forces were able to assassinate three senior officials of President Bashar Assad's regime, targeted by NATO and the UN for Obama's TM Change, which we now can believe means "Regime Change". But news headlines today also tell of 24 NATO fuel tankers set alight in Afghanistan, by a Taliban insurgency of undetermined US backing, of course US contractors now get to sell NATO replacement tankers, AND elsewhere in occupation news, US auditors report $8 billion squandered in Iraq, although total spent, minus reconstruction achieved, probably yields far more billions than that. Meaning more growth opportunity for the US war industry, at Cost Plus. Unless cost squandered means plus should be refunded.
Posted: July 18th, 2012 under Perspective.
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Do as we say and not as we do? -D.C. slaughters civilians in Afghanistan even as it lectures Assad of Syria
There is nothing more sickening than Hillary and Barack lecturing others about their supposed slaughter of civilians even as they slaughter them themselves in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Afghan leader: NATO airstrike killed 18 civilians ___Just who are Clinton and Obama to be lecturing Assad of Syria about anything involving Human Rights?
Posted: June 7th, 2012 under Perspective.
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Hey, Honey! Let's visit Hell on our Memorial weekend vacation!
This vacation news item on USA Today catches the eye… Ongoing conflict severely limits tourism in Afghanistan. Those damn 'conflicts', Honey. Let's not let them get in our way to visiting a vacation paradise… AFGHANISTAN!
Posted: May 27th, 2012 under Perspective.
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NATO troops led by US forces kill 6 more kids
Even while imperialists are screaming that Assad, head of the Syrian government, is a child murderer, Obama's forces are killing kids in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Pakistan. Here's the latest… Afghan authorities: NATO air strike kills eight civilians May 27, 2012 | 4:12 am
Posted: May 27th, 2012 under Perspective.
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Obama Administration reaches agreement with itself to have US occupy Afghanistan forever
What a total fraud of a 'withdrawal'! 'After months of negotiations, the United States and Afghanistan completed drafts of a strategic partnership agreement on Sunday that pledges American support for Afghanistan for 10 years after the withdrawal of combat troops at the end of 2014.' Further about this 'agreement' between the US government and itself at the New York Times article titled… With Pact, U.S. Agrees to Help Afghans for Years to Come …It's time to throw the Republicans out of hte White House! Oh, wait? In our 'democracy' the US population only has a choice between two sets of Republicans- Republicans or Republicrats.
Posted: April 22nd, 2012 under Perspective.
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The Invisible Man – President Obama's soldier at large, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales
Sgt. Robert Bales is the Obama Administrations 'Invisible Man'. He is also the Pentagon's stealth killer and the American war machine's hidden 'hero'. He is the guy now taking the lone fall for what a group of American soldiers collectively did as they slaughtered down a total of 17 civilians, including 9 children in the middle of the night.
Posted: April 6th, 2012 under Perspective.
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Did US Staff Sergeant Robert Bales engage in a US military revenge killing?
(Robert Fisk) 'The Afghan narrative has been curiously lobotomised – censored, even – by those who have been trying to explain this appalling massacre in Kandahar. They remembered the Koran burnings – when American troops in Bagram chucked Korans on a bonfire – and the deaths of six Nato soldiers, two of them Americans, which followed. But blow me down if they didn't forget – and this applies to every single report on the latest killings – a remarkable and highly significant statement from the US army's top commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, exactly 22 days ago. Indeed, it was so unusual a statement that I clipped the report of Allen's words from my morning paper and placed it inside my briefcase for future reference.
Posted: March 17th, 2012 under Perspective.
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I'll see your Staff Sgt Robert Bales and raise you 15 death squad members
Everyone from the US Department of Defense to the School of the Americas knows it takes a village to raze a death squad, or vice versa. According to the manual, if you want to storm houses in the middle of the night, gather the male family members for execution, shoot everyone in the head, gather stray bodies into a pile, pour gasoline over them and burn them, then repeat the operation in a neighboring village, you need a death squad, possibly two, especially if everyone's drunk. US forces have pulled off so many of these massacres in Iraq and Afghanistan, that it's a wonder military analysts don't recognize the Panjwayi raid as a textbook operation. If the official US spin is to be believed, and one drunken staff sergeant can do the work of 15-20, I'm thinking our entire NATO force in Afghanistan could be reduced by the same factor without jeopardizing US kill goals.
Posted: March 17th, 2012 under Sight-Bites.
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American society looks into the mirror and sees this
US Army killer, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales
Posted: March 16th, 2012 under Perspective.
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Pentagon is trying to stage manage storyline about events in Afghanistan
"It is not possible for only one American soldier to come out of his base, kill a number of people far away, burn the bodies, go to another house and kill civilians there, then walk at least 2 kilometers and enter another house, kill civilians and burn them," said Abdul Rahim Ayubi, a lawmaker from Kandahar province who visited the area on Monday. See the latest AP report Afghan recounts US soldier shooting his father.
Posted: March 12th, 2012 under Headlines.
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Spinning US atrocities, words matter: shooting sprees & shopping rampages
Headlines about Sunday's midnight massacre in Kandahar transformed quickly from NATO FORCES RAID to become LONE GUNMAN KILLS 16, as the attributed sources shifted from Afghan locals on the scene to US military spokesmen. One might argue it's in the interest of national security to attribute the murders in Balandi and Alkozai to a solitary stalker, to tamp the swelling anger of the Afghan populace, but what's the truth? Making a rare concession, the NYT has revised its headline a 3rd time to read LONE SOLDIER SAID TO BE KILLER OF 16 AFGHANS, and the BBC puts "ACTED ALONE" in quotes. (UPDATE: AP adds "allegedly" and LA Times "apparently")
Pundits stroke our soldiers' egos by asking could one special forces soldier alone kill so many (?!), but more difficult to imagine is how a rogue fighter can equip himself and pass through multiple security defenses unobserved. Also doubtful is how and why a stealth assassin would burn the victims' bodies as he moved about. Easier to believe is that damage control decided it best that one man take the fall for his comrades, God and country, probably the one too drunk to object.
Posted: March 12th, 2012 under Headlines.
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Oops, troops don't get memo, kill kids
SUNDAY- Drunken US soldiers kill 16 Afghanistan civilians, nine of them children. The US military is claiming the massacre was the work of one soldier who "wandered" inside homes in Kandahar's Panjwayi district, but witnesses report it was a squad who laughed as they shot the families and tried to burn the bodies. US Army defenders might argue mouths agape that it doesn't make sense, what would US NATO forces accomplish by doing that? State terrorism is no accident. Whether by directive, unleashing berserkers, or enlisting young men with mental deficiencies, TROOPS KILL KIDS.
For our remedial readers I'll note that Tony and I are under fire for raising that point at an Occupy GA. What's the vigilante posse got to say about the US soldiers in the village of Zangabad? Just part of the ugly job of war? Happens everyday? Yes it does.
Posted: March 11th, 2012 under News.
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US Occupation troops starve the children of Afghanistan half to death
'More than half of Afghan children under the age of five are chronically malnourished, according to the joint report by the World Bank and the government.' The full responsibility for this lies with the US military Commander in Chief, Barack Obama. See AFP report Afghan child hunger among worst in world: report ….How many Afghan children have actually died from the hunger caused by the US government and its troops occupying Afghanistan?
Posted: March 6th, 2012 under Headlines, Perspective.
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Reuters poll says that 2/3 of Americans want troops brought home immediately
Unfortunately, many if not most of these same Americans would easily buy into the US going to war with Iran if the new war was presented by the US propaganda machine to them all nice and properly…. More than half of Americans back Obama's Koran apology. …An apology is not near enough though. The US has spent decades destroying Afghanistan, and it's not just about some few burnt Qurans anymore. Plus, you cannot be planning for a war with Iran and expect anybody to take your 'apology' seriously, Barack. Bring ALL the troops home now!
Posted: March 5th, 2012 under Perspective.
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Battle for Hearts & Minds of Afghan and Iraqi people has been lost by US troops
Does anybody in the US really believe that the American military has won over the Hearts and Minds of the people in Afghanistan and Iraq, let alone in other parts of the Middle East?
Our government's military is a corporate modeled occupation army and not one fit to over Hearts and Minds of those whose lands they occupy. For example, read Just Plain Stupidity Or A Failure By Design? … Burning the Quran; Urinating On Dead Bodies … In that commentary the author talks about the 'brainless' behavior of the US occupation forces. But could it be any other way? Racist military men and women hardly are the best conduit for winning people over to supporting the US. They are just over there to do a 'job', make a 'career' for themselves in the US military, and then get back home and grab some of the extras that the military offers up to its hires.
Posted: March 5th, 2012 under Perspective.
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Why do they kill? Who orders the killing? Why do the grunts do what they do?
"Who has given the license to kill and in what court? Who has declared that they can hit anyone they like?"
"How many 'high level targets' could there possibly be?"
"What kind of democracy is America," Safdar asks, "where people do not ask these questions?"
From Kathy Kelly's commentary on CounterPunch today "All of us ask, 'Why?' They kill people with computers and they can't tell us why." They also kill people with plain old fashioned bombs and guns too. Why does the US occupy Afghanistan? Why do the American people mainly sit passively by like a herd of sheep?
Posted: February 29th, 2012 under Perspective.
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The Colorado Springs Occupy Movement needs to burn some Bibles out at Fort Carson perhaps?
'The U.S. government and the American commander of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan apologized after Afghan laborers found charred copies of the Koran while collecting rubbish at the sprawling Bagram Airbase, about an hour's drive north of Kabul.' See Reuters Six killed, many wounded in Afghan Koran protests.
Posted: February 22nd, 2012 under Culture, Headlines, Monkeywrenching, Perspective, Policy, Politics.
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NATO troops kill 8 children in Afghanistan
How long will the US and European populations sit back passively allowing their governments' troops to kill children repeatedly in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere in Asia and Africa? Here is the latest atrocity by US/ NATO troops… NATO airstrike killed eight children: Karzai
Posted: February 10th, 2012 under Perspective.
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Gen. James Mattis, Obama's choice for being head of the US Central Command
Thirty year military veteran, Brian Cloughley, writes in the latest online weekend edition of CounterPunch just exactly what he thinks about Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, who continues to head up the U.S. Central Command in Asia. The following is what he has to say in brief…
Posted: January 22nd, 2012 under Perspective, Photos, Politics, Snapshots.
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The Puppet-Masters and their pet Turkey, double-dealing.
They condemn those of us in America who rebel against their fascist Corporate leadership and presumption of ownership of every aspect of our lives, calling it "Freedom" while their Pig-Slaves break our heads with clubs and plastic bullets. And in the case of Oscar Grant, lead and copper bullets.
While cheering rebellions in countries which have denied "deprived" the Poor Little Rich Boys like Halliburton, Exxon-Mobil, British Petroleum, Royal Dutch, Shell, "stolen" their claim to have Corporate Control over their ports and their oil. And they actually finance and organize the so-called "spontaneous" rebellions like in Libya and now, Syria. Never mind they're also paying Other Peoples Money And Lives to put down REAL grass roots movements in Iraq and Afghanistan and Yemen… And Turkey.
Turkey is now paying back their Corporate Overlords for the U.S. and NATO PUBLICLY FUNDED Terror War against the Kurds and Albania. The Slave-Caliph Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemns Syria for responding violently to violent attacks while continuing to suppress, with the help of his Puppet Masters in London and Washington, the Kurdish People actually having a right to life.
Lick them Pentagon Boots, "caliph" Erdogan. They're your masters and you are their dog. Just like the New Puppet Regime in Libya, and the somewhat more established Puppet Regimes in Tel Aviv, Kabul, and Baghdad.
Be the little whipped hound for racist bastards who call you "ragheads" and "sand-niggers" and "muzzle monkeys".
You might wear golden chains and a gold collar, but they're still a collar and chain.
Just like the Oakland, Denver, Colorado Springs and New York Police departments violently suppressing freedom here, in the very homeland of your puppet-masters and, at their bidding.
Posted: November 15th, 2011 under Perspective.
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There is a magic space in Klein Joostenberg where you can lose yourself completely in an almost sacred union between nature and human creativity.
For many years I would walk into each nursery I visited and ask my standard question: "Where are your indigenous plants?" I was always met with a blank look. One day, I always thought, people will understand and things will change. Then I found the rarest of gems, Van den Berg Garden Village not far from Stellenbosch.
We had hardly parked outside this beautifully laid out, rambling place when I noticed how distinct it is from any other nursery I have ever visited. All manner of natural art greets you as soon as you arrive — trees shaped into creatures peep at you with old eyes and there is furniture fashioned from raw timber that makes you feel as if you are in an ancient, unspoiled forest. Not a single spot has been left untouched by the highly skilled and deeply creative owner.
Toos van den Berg hails from the Netherlands where she studied horticulture before travelling around Europe, arriving eventually in Africa. It was in the Cape that she met her late husband, and here she has stayed. After developing nurseries in Dieprivier, Durbanville and Kirstenbosch she then moved to this charmed space and began to perform the magic that will surround you. You need to see this for yourself.
Here is a masterpiece by a genuine artist of the soil who paints and sculpts with plants and the result of her creative vision, her years of practical experience and her encyclopaedic knowledge of plants will transport you to another reality. Literally hundreds of different types of plants ranging from proteas and leucodendrons to locospermums are grouped together into spirals, rainbows and shapes that drift into novel configurations around waterfalls and fish ponds with little benches on which to sit and dream. Though 80% of the plants in the nursery are indigenous, she also grows intriguing exotic plants including orchids, shrubs and trees from all over the planet. "The birds don't know the difference," Toos remarks wryly.
"So often, seedlings die when they're planted out as their roots are damaged in the process," says Toos. Nowadays, to minimise casualties, she fashions bio-degradable seedling containers out of newsprint. "You simply put the plant, still in its paper container, directly into the soil," she explains. "This keeps the roots fully protected from harm and keeps the young plant surrounded with moisture. Successful planting has never been even easier and this way you also save a lot of water," says Toos. "The roots soon work their way through the paper container, which then becomes compost. "
Do yourself a favour and treat yourself to an unforgettable family outing to this enchanting little village, where among other delights you will also find a comprehensively stocked delicatessen, a bistro, a Bali shop and a rose nursery. You could spend an entire Saturday here, basking in the tranquillity, listening to the birdsong and taking home with you a diversity of treasures with which to bless your own space.
John, Mutare, Zimbabwe. September 2009.
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While seasonal influenza (flu) viruses can be detected year-round in the United States, flu viruses are most common during the fall and winter. The flu is serious and can even be deadly, but it's also preventable – and the flu vaccine has been shown to be one of the best ways to protect against the flu.
Shoo the Flu is a public-private partnership between the Alameda County Public Health Department (ACPHD), the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), the Page Family Foundation and other community partners in Oakland, Calif., committed to public health by decreasing flu and flu-related disease burden within the Oakland area.
The program uses school-located influenza vaccination (SLIV) to reach elementary school children. We spoke with Katherine "Kate" Holbrook, MS, RN, CNS, PHN, program manager of Shoo the Flu, to learn more about this community-based program and the unique role nurses play in decreasing flu-related disease burden within communities.
Nursing Notes (NN): Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your nursing career?
Kate: I earned my Bachelor of Arts in Health and Societies and minored in Hispanic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. After that, I moved to California where I earned my Master of Science in Advanced Community Health and International Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. I worked by the bedside as a nurse for five years until I moved to Honduras to manage a rural emergency and birthing clinic, and assist in monitoring and evaluating a local public health care network.
NN: Could you tell us about Shoo the Flu and how you became involved with the organization?
Kate: I stumbled upon the project manager position at Shoo the Flu by chance. The position wasn't specifically seeking a nurse candidate, but as I read the job description, I thought I had a lot of the qualities and experiences they were looking for. The program bridges public and private entities in hopes to reduce the disease burden of the flu and flu-related illness in the Oakland area. We do this with any public, private, or charter elementary school that wants to become involved. The local school district takes an active role in coordination, is engaged in planning, and helps with decision making, while the local and state health departments provide oversight, technical assistance, and supplies.
NN: Nurses play a vital role in flu prevention efforts; can you discuss this niche role in more detail?
Kate: Although nurses are often the people who are administering the flu shot itself, I think nurses are important contributors to the planning and implementation of programs like Shoo the Flu, too, as they can provide clinical insight, train staff implementing the program and provide knowledge about the community served. Whether they work in a hospital, a community program, a clinic, or a school, nurses can provide awareness of the flu and the importance of getting vaccinated.
NN: From a nurse's perspective, what is something individuals outside the healthcare field may not know about the flu?
Kate: First, people should know that the flu is a dangerous disease and that people still die from the disease every year. The most vulnerable people are those who can't be vaccinated, like infants 6 months and younger, or who don't have a great immune system, like the elderly population. Those who are vaccinated face a less-severe disease burden and are less likely to need hospitalization. People should also know the best ways to protect themselves are to wash your hands, avoid touching your face, and stay away from others who are sick.
NN: Is there anything else you would like to add?
Kate: As a program manager for a community-based public health program, much of my education and experience as a nurse has been beneficial in this role. Even if job descriptions don't necessarily require you to be a nurse, you would be surprised at how well your skills and knowledge as a nurse are best suited to inform public health program planning and implementation. Even if the actual program coordinators are not nurses, it's important to have nurse oversight or input.
To learn how population growth, urbanization, increased travel and climate change have increased the risk that familiar diseases such as Ebola, influenza and Zika will spread and mutate, check out Unseen Enemy, which is available to rent or buy on Amazon. Unseen Enemy is a powerful film that tells the story of infectious diseases and encourages each of us to do our part in preventing the next pandemic. Johnson & Johnson is proud to be the founding outreach partner of this urgent and compelling film.
As seen in Unseen Enemy, even healthy people can get the flu, and can spread it to others even if they don't feel sick. Take preventative measures this flu season, to help protect yourself, your family, and your patients. Watch and share Shannon's story to help raise awareness.
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Wondering what it's like to take a weeklong QC summer camp on Quantum Physics? Michael Finnegan, founder of QuantumCamp, shares his experience last week teaching one of QC's most popular science courses.
I had 15 students in my Berkeley Quantum Physics summer camp last week. They had divergent backgrounds, varied academic experiences, and widely differing reasons to be sitting in a classroom in the middle of July tackling quantum physics. Some, jaded by boring science in their regular schools, were there because their parents made them. These students were kind of dreading the 30 hours of physics in front them. On the other hand, some students already know they love science and were excited to begin.
Knowing this, there is very little I can do in the first moments of class to inspire the wary. Yet, by talking too long, you can actually turn off the students who are initially excited. So clearly we know it is best to usher the crew into lab right away.
Within moments, all students are probing the key ideas upon which quantum physics is founded. They have already forgotten why they are doing physics in the middle of July. They are conducting experiments they themselves set up. They are seeing amazing phenomena and talking about it. They are forced to either make up their own words or ask me what the name of something is. I am not telling them anything unless they ask.
By the end of the week, a story of physics emerges. Students are able to interpret beautiful patterns of light emitted by the elements of our universe formed billions of years ago. They are staring directly into the fundamental make-up of every atom in our universe.
They are indeed exhausted by the end of the week. Who wouldn't be after 30 hours of physics! But when they put together the finishing touches on the true nature of the atom, the whole class broke into applause and cheering. I have been teaching this course for 4 years, but I was quite moved by these students.
We still have two weeks of summer camp left, including a session of Quantum Physics! Learn more about our camps at www.quantumcamp.com.


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Paris and the Seine Valley
This 8-day cruise takes you on a voyage of discovery from Paris through the Seine Valley (inspiration to countless painters and poets of all ages) to the Normandy Coast. Highlights include a day discovering the delights and land marks of Paris, the Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny, the 'Road of Abbeys', the historic town of Rouen - site of the burning of Joan of Arc, and Honfleur on the Cote Fleurie.
Boarding between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm in Paris. Time to settle comfortably in your cabins before meeting the crew during a welcome cocktail reception. Dinner on board .before departing on a cruise to tour the sights of the French capital lit up at night. Overnight stop
Breakfast on board. The day will be dedicated to the discovery of Paris.Morning guided tour of Paris, which will begin with famous landmarks as the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame cathedral, the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs Elysées. Lunch on the ship followed by a free afternoon to stroll round Paris. Dinner and a free evening or go on to a cabaret (optional – excursion paid on board ship)
Buffet breakfast on board before cruising on to reach Vernon around 12.30 pm. Lunch on board. In the afternoon, take the opportunity to visit the Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny, a charming pink house with green shutters which has been patiently restored and reveals the painter's daily life. As you wander round the house, visit Monet's huge workshop, bathed in the light that he cherished so much, the blue living room, the yellow dining room and the famous garden full of flowers and finally the Japanese style water garden. Return to the ship for dinner before cruising off towards Caudebec en Caux.
Buffet breakfast on board while cruising along through magnificent scenery and steep cliffs at the foot of which nestle charming little villages Lunch on board before arriving in Caudebec en Caux around 1.00 pm. In the afternoon, leave on a guided tour to discover the Road of Abbeys beginning with the church of Caudebec en Caux which dates back to the 15th century then on to Jumièges, and the ruins of one of the most beautiful abbeys in France, not forgetting the church of St Pierre, one of the finest examples of 10th century Norman architecture. Return to the ship for around 6.00pm for dinner before sailing on towards Honfleur (subject to the tides).
After breakfast depart on an excursion to the "Cote Fleurie" (flowered coast) and the towns of Trouville and Deauville including a stop on the way to visit a Calvados distillery. Return to the ship for lunch. The afternoon will be spent on a guided visit of Honfleur. Lying at the foot of the Côte de Grace, the town will enchant you with its old port, the church of St Catherine entirely made out of wood, its picturesque streets and outer harbour dotted with little fishing boats. Return to the ship for dinner and a free evening.
Early morning start and breakfast while cruising along a superb valley whose light variations inspired not only the impressionist painters but also many poets, before passing under the splendid Normandy Bridge. Lunch on board before arriving in Rouen around 2.00 pm. Depart on a guided tour of the town to discover the cathedral, its historic quarters and the old market place where Joan of Arc was burnt alive at the stake. Return to the ship for dinner and an entertaining evening. Overnight stop.
After breakfast, cruise off towards les Andelys, through the lock in Amfreville, arriving around midday. Lunch on board. The afternoon will be spent visiting the chateau of Vascoeuil, a unique place according to Jules Michelet where art, history and nature blend together in perfect harmony. Return on board. Gala dinner and evening while cruising.
Breakfast on board before arriving in Paris around 8.00 am before disembarking. End of the cruise.
This itinerary is a guide only. For reasons of navigational safety, the captain and crew of the boat alone may decide to modify the itinerary.
Please note Croisi cruises are bilingual with on board commentaries in both French & English. Sightseeing tours are guaranteed in English with either bilingual guides or audiphones.
This offer includes: The cruise on full board from dinner on the first day to breakfast on the final day, local wine, beer and fruit juice at lunch and dinner (on board meals only), Open bar including a variety of French and regional wine and spirits (excluding Champagne and premium drinks), accommodation in a twin air conditioned cabin with shower and WC, entertainment, the assistance of our hostess on board, the welcome cocktail, the gala evening, port taxes and pre paid English sightseeing (subject to minimum numbers).
This offer does not include: insurance, personal expenses, Drinks - wine selected from the premium drinks list and those purchased on shore excursions, shore excursions.
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VIGIV is a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-licensed therapeutic used to treat complications due to smallpox vaccinations. Emergent will supply VIGIV to the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile as part of a three-year, $18.9 million contract. The contract provides for the work needed to maintain FDA licensure of VIGIV and collect plasma for manufacturing in the future.
A recent contract modification by the CDC will increase the total contract value to $36.6 million.
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